Works in Progress arts festival for in progress works happened Thursday through Saturday, with Lucky Dragons as the 'keynote.' The whole conference was magical, and I think that in many ways, WiP's byline: "providing artists with a forum for presenting works-in-progress to a discerning, yet sympathetic, public" is the ideal for a conference. Every time I walk away from one, I want to rework what I've presented anyhow, but the future tense of the comment section was nice. The work ranged from things I was really interested in to the absurd to the boring, but the structure helped. Kendra Greene collected punchlines, which she read (without the jokes). Katie McGowan talked about brain respiration, the latest craze. Josh Eklow talked about buying a gun, and then Charlton Heston showed up with the Strawman and Mudwoman from Sudden Brick Works. None of these can I completely understand or explain, but they were damn nice and funny and great.
Lucky Dragons came on -- Luke Fishbeck -- and he created a prayer circle bizarre performance situation. Wires wrapped in colored yarn, stones used to create magnetic sound fields, the whole audience worked together led by Luke to make something, and I think we all left feeling more connected (sometimes physically, through the noise our bodies made when touching contact microphones and inputs).
Today, Josh and Derek and their ladies went to the flee market with me in the backseat. We wandered around the town, What Cheer, Iowa looking for goodies. I found a plate with a buffalo on it, some bowls that are the same as some my grandfather had when I was a kid, and some funnel cake. Then I took some apples off a nearby tree and we drove home.
See yonders fields of tasseled corn, Iowa in Iowa,
Where plenty fills her golden horn, Iowa in Iowa,
See how her wonderous praries shine.
To yonder sunset’s purpling line,
O! happy land, O! land of mine, Iowa, O! Iowa.
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